daily development news
From the World Bank's DevNews Media Center
selected articles
"Into Africa", The New York Times, August 13th 2006
Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs, to Tell if a Nation Will Recover From War , The New York Times, July 20th 2006
Fighting Poverty With $2-a-Day Jobs, The New York Times, July 16th 2006
4 Ways To Spend $60 Billion Wisely, (William Easterly) The Washington Post, July 2nd 2006
One year on, vow to make poverty history in Africa has hollow ring, The Times, June 26th 2006
MYTH - More Foreign Aid will End Global Poverty, ABC News , May 12th 2006
Foreign aid skeptics thrive on pessimism, The Los Angeles Times, May 7th 2006
The Handouts that Feed Poverty (William Easterly) The Los Angeles Times, April 30th 2006
The West can't save Africa ( William Easterly) The Washington Post, Feb. 13th 2006
The Utopian Nightmare ( William Easterly) Foreign Policy, September/October 2005
Can aid do more harm than good? BBC News, August 26th 2005
Aid Recipients might have the Best Ideas about Allocation The Washington Post, July 12th 2005
Aid is well worth trying The Financial Times, July 5th 2005
Tone Deaf on Africa The New York Times, July 3rd 2005 ( Op-Ed by William Easterly)
The White Band's Burden The Independent, June 5th 2005 ( Comment by William Easterly)
Giving till it hurts The Wall Street Journal, March 23rd 2005 ( bookreview of J. Sachs' "The End of Poverty")
A Modest Proposal The Washington Post, March 13th, 2005 ( William Easterly reviews "The End Of Poverty" by Jeffrey Sachs)
Up from Poverty The Washington Post, March 27th, 2005 ( Jeffrey Sachs' letter to the Editor commenting on William Easterly's book review above, with reply from William Easterly)
Money is not a cure-all for Africa's poor The Times Higher Educational Supplement, March 11th, 2005 ( William Easterly writes about Chancellor Gordon Brown's "Marshall Plan" for Africa.)
Cry Wolf and let slip the dogs of war , The Financial Times, March 2nd, 2005 (on the news that Paul Wolfowitz is being considered to head the World Bank)
Recasting the case for aid , The Economist, Jan. 20th, 2005
U.N. Report Urges Rich Nations to Double Aid to Poor,The New York Times, Jan.17th, 2005
Why it pays to forgive poor nations' debts, The Christian Science Monitor, Jan.13th 2005
Farewell Africa, Beggar, Serf, Soldier, Child, The New York Times, December 12th, 2004
A New Pattern Is Cut for Global Textile Trade, The Washington Post, November 17th, 2004
Spend $150 Billion per Year to Cure World Poverty,The New York Times, Nov. 7th, 2004
In Africa, Free Schools Feed a Different Hunger, The New York Times,October 24th, 2004
Do Studies Aid Government Policies or Reflect Them?,The New York Times, July 26th,2003
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